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[S-R] Re: Need Help Translating a Rusyn Record

Bill, With a married clergy and a Diocese of Presov, these are clearly Greek Catholic records. There has never been a Latin rite diocese of Presov. I have seen

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Bill,
With a married clergy and a Diocese of Presov, these are clearly Greek Catholic records. There has never been a Latin rite diocese of Presov. I have seen large numbers of Greek Catholic records kept in Latin, and translated large numbers of them for individuals. Most educated people up until the 20th century could read and write [to one degree or another] in Latin. The Greek Catholic clergy at the time were no exception, and the study of Latin was mandatory for Greek Catholic clergy at the time. So called church Slavonic was used as a language in liturgical books, but was not a spoken language. The Rusyn dialect spoken at homes [still heard today in parts of Eastern Slovakia] was written in cyrillic alphabet and used in some church matrika records but surprisingly large numbers are in Latin and/or Hungarian. Just go to the family search site and start looking at the Greek Church online records sequentially

Curt B.

--- In SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Tarkulich" <bill.tarkulich@...> wrote:
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> It's been my experience that Latin was used by the Roman Catholic church, Greek Catholic used Church Slavonic for the earliest records, but later used Magyar (
> "Hungarian"). Most often the village name was rendered in the governing language(usually Magyar), The surname was rendered literally and the given name often was rendered in Latin, Slavonic or Magyar, depending on the soup you ordered. ;)
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> My gut tells me these were Roman Catholic records.
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of CurtB
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:33 PM
> To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [S-R] Re: Need Help Translating a Rusyn Record
>
> MM
> Quite possibly so. As I said, both naming the register [is a baptismal, death or marriage register?] and giving the headings of columns is very important when trying to translate. Many abbreviations are used and inflected languages like latin or hungarian often are continuations of the column heading themselves.
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> When this information is absent, translation often becomes much harder, and sometimes impossible.
>
> Curt B.
>
> --- In SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Mojher" <mgmojher@> wrote:
> >
> > Curt,
> > I thought possibly your Ã¢â¬Å"96Ã¢â¬Â could have been GC for Greek Catholic.
> >
> > From: CurtB
> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:44 AM
> > To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [S-R] Re: Need Help Translating a Rusyn Record
> >
> >
> > jtgen,
> > It would have helped a lot if you had posted the column headings as well. The record is not in Rusyn, though it is for the Greek Catholic church. The record is in Latin, as many of their records are.
> >
> > But here's a try.
> >
> > Cell no 1.
> > Joannes kello curate of Kiralyneji [genitive case of a place name],
> > Lady [Domina] Adamkovics - 96 , his wife.
> >
> > Cell no 2.
> > Just a repeat of the place name.
> >
> > Cell no. 3.
> > Alexander Kello 96 theologian of the diocese of Presov,
> > widow Lady Melania [can't read this one word ==con??]wife of Rev. Fr George Adamkovics.
> >
> > Cell no. 4.
> >
> > A[dmodum] R[evendum] D[ominum]
> > The most Reverend Lord, Nicolaus Hvozilovics, pastor of Vargonyi.
> >
> > Cell no. 5.
> >
> > Nullae. just means nothing, or null.
> >
> > Curt B.
> >
> > In mailto:SLOVAK-ROOTS%40yahoogroups.com, "jtgen96" <jtgen96@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have posted a copy of a record found on microfilm at the Family History Library. It is from the Presov files. We have a vague idea of what it say -- enough to know it contains critical information. We need to know exactly what each cell says.
> > >
> > > Can someone please help us. The record is posted on the "files" section of this website under KELLO DOCUMENTS. The first column did not copy in a readable way, but we know it is the record for Maria Kello 1888.
> > >
> > > Thanks to all who work on this site. You are an invaluable source of help for us struggling to find information about our families.
> > >
> >
> >
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> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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